Inland Rivers Network

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We are a coalition of individuals and environment groups that advocate for healthy rivers, wetlands, and groundwater in the Murray-Darling Basin – particularly those in NSW. Read More

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Recent Submissions: Inland River Network advocates for better water sharing plans in the Namoi, Lachlan, and Macquarie Rivers

by HRDJune 1, 2025June 6, 2025

Recently the NSW Natural Resource Commission sought public comments on their review pf the Upper Namoi and Lower Namoi Regulated Rivers, the Lachlan Regulated Rivers Water Sharing Plan and the Macquarie and Cudgegong Regulated Rivers Water Sharing Plan. Go to…

Thermal Pollution of the Murray-Darling Basin Waterways – 2001

by HRDMarch 12, 2024

The Thermal Pollution Workshop was held at Lake Hume, Albury on 18 – 19 June 2001, and those in attendance represented a broad cross-section of interests, stakeholders and professions. Importantly, the workshop bought together a diversity of expertise from scientists…

The Way Forward on Weirs – August 2000

by HRDMarch 12, 2024

The Way Forward on Weirs was the first conference to address the ecological, engineering, economic and social aspects of reducing the environmental impacts of weirs in Australia. Hosted by the Inland Rivers Network on 18 and 19 August 2000 in…

Farmers are frustrated over years of delays for the Wyangala Dam wall raising project

by HRDMarch 22, 2023

ABC Central West / By Hugh Hogan March 22nd, 2023 Excerpt: With the state election this weekend, NSW Labor said it needed more details before it could commit to the project. “We don’t know what it’s going to cost. We don’t know clearly…

Water recovery and ‘over recovery’ in the Macquarie valley

by HRDFebruary 24, 2023

The NSW Coalition government and the local fibre growing industry groups are making a controversial claim – that there is too much water in the Commonwealth’s environmental water accounts in the Wambuul/Macquarie and Gwydir catchments. So how can the claim…

Growing calls for water recycling in drought-prone regional cities

by HRDFebruary 17, 2023

ABC News February 17, 2023 Parts of regional Australia are experiencing a population boom, but there are concerns some of the fast-growing inland cities are ill-equipped for the next drought. Some of the communities which ran out of water, or…

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